Originally Posted by
ryanw
I could be wrong, but this is what I got out of his post:
For example, you can always try to "slip in" things like aluminum wound motors and hope to get paid as copper bearing, but that's not what they are worth. Eventually, the scrap yard has to pass the accountability onto the scrapper, and pay accordingly.
That seems to sum that part of it up a little better ; ) True enough that's a large part of what it comes to be. I've taken cleaner loads of shred and the scales seemed to be weighing on the light side, taken not so clean loads, and seemed to weigh the same, on the light side.
I've also watched the scale fella dock me several pounds on clean loads when I could see no reason to, but it seems to be their practice, not necessarily due to the individual load, but what they've come to do on them all.
I should have addressed that with him then, but had too many other things on my mind, the fact is, my higher priced piles are always cleaner than the shred would be, such as a bunch of aluminum degausing cables which to me aren't worth stripping, but instead of trying to hide them in with #2 ins copper, I set them aside and they're still sittin waiting on me to figure out what to do with. Maybe they have too many others taking another route, on most any category
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